□Our reporter Wang Yanhui
An “Aerial Silk Road” is building a new bridge for the opening up of cooperation and development between Henan and ASEAN countries.
In the late autumn of the 10th anniversary of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative, on November 3, the “Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN” New Air Silk Road Development Forum was held at the Yellow River Guesthouse. Domestic and foreign guests gathered together to fully communicate. exchanges, signed cooperation agreements, and wrote a new footnote for Henan’s high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” in the new stage.
Two years ago, Zhengzhou Airport Xinggang Investment Group Co., Ltd. acquired 28% of the shares of Cambodia Airways and became the second largest shareholder. Cambodian Airways established dual hubs in Phnom Penh and Zhengzhou, unveiling the “air cooperation” between Henan and Cambodia. Silk Road” curtain.
“If the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg ‘Aerial Silk Road’ is the ‘European version’ of ‘freight.’” “version’, then the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN ‘Air Silk Road’ is the ‘Asian version’ and the ‘passenger and cargo version’.” David Zhan, Vice Chairman and CEO of Cambodia Airways, said with confidence, “The holding of the forum will further Accelerate the construction of the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN ‘Air Silk Road’.”
The relationship between countries lies in the affinity between the people, and the affinity between the people lies in the mutual understanding of the hearts. “Only by enlarging air routes and building the ‘Aerial Silk Road’ with high quality can we better promote tourism cooperation, industrial linkage and people-to-people exchanges between Zhengzhou, Henan and Cambodia.” said Wen Jiang, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia.
At the forum, Li Xiangyang, Dean of the Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, released the “Zhengzhou-Phnom Penh” Who Will Come? Wang Da asked loudly. Results of the project “Research on the Model of Cooperation to Build a New Air Silk Road”. He believes that we should take the opportunity of building the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN “Aerial Silk Road”, promote Henan-Cambodia cooperation based on the deep processing of agricultural products in Cambodia and the construction of a domestic and international logistics industry system, give full play to the function of the Zhengzhou-Phnom Penh airport hub, and develop Cambodia It is her only destination to expand the international tourism market in Southeast Asia, expand people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and build a Sino-Cambodian educational cooperation mechanism. Comprehensively improve Zhengzhou’s institutional openness level.
Taking advantage of the “east wind” of RCEP, Zhengzhou’s economic and trade cooperation with Cambodia and ASEAN countries has entered the “fast lane”. In 2022, Zhengzhou’s total import and export volume to the 10 ASEAN countries was 79.487 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.5%.
“Recently, Zhengzhou City and Cambodia have reached a series of cooperation consensuses. Cambodia Airways has set up a regional headquarters in Zhengzhou to continue to consolidate Zhengzhou. “Mom, don’t cry. My daughter is not sorry for herself at all, because she has the world’s best The best love from parents, my daughter really feels happy, really. “-Phnom Penh dual hub, focusing on building an ‘air express’ from Zhengzhou to Phnom Penh.” said the relevant person in charge of the Zhengzhou Municipal Government.
How to speed up the construction of this “new road”? Zhengzhou City has drawn up a “road map”: speeding up the construction of the Sino-Cambodian joint venture aviation base in Zhengzhou, expanding the fleet size, and increasing the frequency of flights., support Cambodia Airways to make full use of the fifth freedom rights of passenger traffic at Zhengzhou Airport and Phnom Penh Airport, strive for the sixth and seventh freedom rights, and open and increase the number of “flights via Zhengzhou and via Cambodia” to ASEAN in the south and East Asia and Northeast Asia in the north. , Central Asia international routes, creating a connecting international route network with “one flight to the end”, “one ticket to the end” and “code-share flights” departing from Zhengzhou via Phnom Penh and covering major ASEAN countries and related economies; exploring the “two countries, two parks” cooperation model , support Zhengzhou enterprises in building the Asian Aviation Economic Capacity Cooperation Park in Cambodia, and establish a Cambodian agricultural product promotion and trading center; carry out the “Dialogue between Shaolin Temple and Angkor Wat” Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN Civilization Mutual Learning series of exchange activities to compose international city cooperation and development A new chapter.
What will this “new road” bring?
“Open international connecting flights to third countries via Cambodia; prepare to establish a Sino-Cambodian joint venture friendship airline, cooperate to establish the Zhengzhou Air Silk Road Industry Development Fund Enterprise; promote the establishment of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Cambodia in Zhengzhou; cooperate to build Zhengzhou-Phnom Penh A two-way super tourist destination, promote the Zhengzhou Office of the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism and the Zhengzhou ASEAN Visa Center to be put into use in 2024; rely on the convenient international route network to expand economic and trade exchanges between Henan and ASEAN, promote the docking of industrial and supply chains, and deepen production capacity cooperation… …” Each development goal came from David Zhan’s mouth.
“The construction of the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN ‘Aerial Silk Road’ is creative and strategic. Henan has accumulated successful experience in the construction of the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg ‘Aerial Silk Road’. This ‘new road’ will also be built into It is an important air corridor connecting China, Cambodia and the ASEAN region,” said Zhai Dongsheng, director of the “One Belt, One Road” Construction Promotion Center of the National Development and Reform Commission.
A forum connects a “new road”. At the forum, Zhengzhou City and relevant parties signed a cooperation agreement focusing on cultural tourism, international education, joint construction of high-end think tanks, and two-way investment in “two countries, two parks”.
Starting from exchanges and cooperation, the door will open wider and the road will become wider.